Word: visions
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Harvard's answers to such questions have never been uncertain. But in other parallel cases her clarity of vision seems sometimes to be dimmed. The writer has watched with pain the attempts of the athletic authorities to send one or two teams forth into competition with other colleges without the skilled training which everywhere else is regarded as indispensable. Whether the argument is that the personnel is so good that the men can afford to depend wholly upon their innate fitness and subjective inspirations, or on the other hand that it is so bad as to make it extravagant...
...Rochester representative delegations of students and professors from all important institutions of higher learning in Canada and the United States, and leaders of the missionary enterprise, both at home and abroad, for helpful association and conference; to consider unitedly the world's evangelization; to gain inspiration and a vision of the missionary possibilities of the Church...
...Union, at Brooks House conferences, at academic meetings in Sanders, at dinners and at other occasions without number, he has spoken on subjects of every description and he has never failed to interest and delight his hearers. Whatever the matter at hand, the speaker's breadth of vision and masterful handling have astonished his audiences, accustomed as they are to hearing men with only one subject, and hardly able to conceive of one individual who apparently knows a good deal about everything in this world. On municipal government he is recognized everywhere as an authority, and on the other great...
...leading article in the Illustrated Magazine this month pleads for the establishment of a Harvard journalistic school which should conduct a model newspaper in Boston. The article is entitled "A Vision" and our only criticism of the idea lies in its visionary character. A perfect newspaper, run by Harvard instructors and students, and giving the world's news with absolute truthfulness and accuracy, would undoubtedly do an immense amount of good and would greatly increase the influence of the University. But in considering a project of this sort, the question of practicability is exceedingly important. A paper established on these...
Under the caption of "The Harvard Daily Truth--A Vision," Mr. von Kaltenborn pictures a great newspaper run and operated by the University, partly as an example of what a great university ought to be, and partly as a great school of practical journalism. It is a well-written plea for what the author is pleased to call a new movement in education. There is undoubtedly a movement toward making all instruction objective and practical. Mr. von Kaltenborn's plan looks in that direction. There is also a movement toward restricting a school or a college to those parts...